"Incredible...a fine book." — Jon Stewart
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits (2014)
Every year, thousands of eager college graduates flock to Wall Street to become entry-level bankers. I shadowed eight new bank recruits after the crash of 2008, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process.
Young Money was a New York Times / WSJ bestseller, NYT Editor's Pick, Amazon book of the month, and an MSNBC "Morning Joe" book club pick, and has been translated into multiple languages.
Read an excerpt at New York Magazine
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"A vivid, sunny and skeptical portrait of life among the saved.” — The New York Times
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (2009)
As a sophomore in college, I transferred from Brown University (maybe America's most secular college) to Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's right-wing "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelical Christians.
I spent a semester undercover as a Liberty student, taking classes in creationism, singing in a mega-church choir, and learning some unexpected lessons about faith, tolerance, and compassion. The Unlikely Disciple is the story of my journey.
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